Please note that songs listed here (and in the movie credits)
cannot always be found on CD soundtracks. Please check CD
track details for confirmation.
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"Up the River (Prison 'College' Song)"
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by James F. Hanley
Lyrics by Joseph McCarthy
Played during the opening credits
Sung by the inmates at the show and the baseball game
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"Brighten the Corner Where You Are"
(1913) (uncredited)
Music by Charles H. Gabriel
Played by the Brotherhood of Hope marching band
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"The Stars and Stripes Forever"
(1896) (uncredited)
Music by John Philip Sousa
Played by the prison marching band twice
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"Girl of My Dreams"
(1928) (uncredited)
Written by Sunny Clapp
Sung a cappella by an off-screen chorus during lights out
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"St. Louis Blues"
(1914) (uncredited)
Music by W.C. Handy
Played by the prison band with Bob Burns on stage playing the bazooka
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"M-O-T-H-E-R, a Word That Means the World to Me"
(1915) (uncredited)
Music by Theodore Morse
Lyrics by Howard Johnson
Sung by Steve Pendleton and others in a quartet, at the prison show
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"Frühlingslied (Spring Song)"
(1842) (uncredited)
Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Played during the prison show
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"When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home"
(1859) (uncredited)
(Also called "Seeing Nellie Home")
Composed and arranged by John Fletcher
Lyrics by Frances Kyle
Sung by people on the haywagon
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"The Prisoner's Song (If I Had the Wings of an Angel)"
(1924) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Guy Massey
Sung by the twins, Elizabeth Keating and Helen Keating, on the haywagon
Reprised by an unspecified singer on the radio
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"My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"
(uncredited)
Traditional
Sung by people on the haywagon
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